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Visualize Mobile Strategy With iRise In Just 4 Hours

I can not remember the last time I’ve been in a conversation with a customer about a project that didn’t involve some sort of mobile component.  It’s no surprise that everyone wants mobile and the majority of those people actually need it.  We have found that using iRise, through Enterprise Visualization methodologies, have allowed us […]

SharePoint Error: A Web Part you attempted to change is either invalid or has been removed by another user.

Situation You’ve created your custom elements in SharePoint and everything is flowing along smoothly until you add an out-of-the-box SharePoint web part to a page.  When you try to edit this web part, you get a non-helpful error message that cryptically states that “A Web Part you attempted to change is either invalid or has […]

Using Azure Storage Services from an iPhone App – Part 2: Building the User Interface

This post has moved. New location Future updates to the series will only be posted to the new location. Intro This is part two of the first series of posts I’m writing on developing native mobile apps using the Windows Azure platform. In the first part, I covered the basic setup of my azure storage, […]

Using Azure Storage Services from an iPhone App – Part 1: Table and Blob setup, Azure iOS toolkit, and Model Classes

Windows Azure as a Mobile Backend Platform

Today, I posted a video blog discussing why using Windows Azure as a mobile backend platform is an attractive option. I wanted to quickly summarize the contents of that video and also supplement it with some helpful links. Summary Backend platform selection is important because, unless you’re talking about the most trivial of apps, most […]

Lync Mobility – Understanding SIP Sign-in Address vs. User Principle Name (UPN)

With the recent release of the Lync Mobile client for Windows Phone 7, Android, and iPhone, I’ve seen numerous companies thrilled about the opportunity to extend Lync further within the enterprise! For companies interested in deploying Lync Mobility, the Lync Server Cumulative Update 4 is required. For deployment steps, I highly recommend reading the Microsoft […]

Lync Mobile – First Look

Sunday night at about 7pm Chicago time, I downloaded and installed the Lync Mobile client for Windows Phone 7. In a sad reflection on what passes for excitement in my life, I had been checking about a few times an hour Saturday and Sunday; I probably hit the App Marketplace 50 times on Sunday before […]

Microsoft Mobile Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2010 and Mobile Entrée 3.0 – Performance Point Dashboards going Mobile

I wanted to share my experience with the new features of Mobile Entrée and how to leverage your existing Microsoft Business Intelligence investments as a starting point to building out the mobile platform. Mike Burger posted earlier regarding Mobile Entrée (found here). He stated the fact that it can integrate with SharePoint and render reports […]

Considerations for Delivering Successful Mobile Projects

There is no denying that mobility is currently a hot topic. Staggering forecasts by various analysts have made capitalizing on the mobile applications market a top priority for many organizations’ CIOs and CTOs. However, before diving headfirst into mobility projects, it is important to consider various factors in order to define a clear strategy that […]

Enable one-finger-scrolling in SP2010 for iPad and iPhone

You want your iPad users to be able to scroll your SharePoint 2010 site with one finger. It can be done with the two finger swipe but it doesn’t work as well and visitors may not know that. The solution involves using CSS to disable the – ribbon positioning system – so that the ribbon […]

403 Forbidden Error with iPhone When Accessing SharePoint 2010 in Claims Mode

If you’re looking to support iPhone on a SharePoint 2010 site that is configured to use an external identity provider like Ping Federate, ADFS 2.0, or a custom STS, you will likely run into this issue. However, you may notice everything works just fine with iPad. Fortunately, the issue can be reproduced on the desktop […]

Enable SP2010 nav menu for touch screen devices (like an iPad!)

SharePoint 2010 top nav problem on touch devices You may have noticed that the out of the box SP2010 site nav is not quite usable on a touch screen device like an iPad. The top nav is a list of links, to put it simply. When the links are hovered on, with a mouse, a […]

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